Spanish La Liga giants Barcelona have selected Zambia as their third base for a youth football academy in Africa.
In a statement, Barcelona said the academy will be launched in Lusaka this April following last October’s successful soccer junior football camp help in the Zambian capital.
“The FCBEscola Lusaka will be located on the Futsal and Sports Complex in the city, which has two 7-a-side football pitches and four futsal courts, all of which have artificial grass. The first training sessions will feature the almost 300 boys and girls that enjoyed the first FCBCamp Lusaka last October, while the official opening ceremony is scheduled for April 3,” Barcelona stated.
“The promoters of the new FCBEscola Lusaka are aware that this project will be of major importance for the development of young footballing talent in Zambia, and that the full potential of local athletic qualities is currently not being achieved.
” This school means youngsters will be able to use top quality facilities and will work with professional coaches trained at the Barça academy in Barcelona and thereby maximise their performances.”
Great news.
This is good news for Zambia… well done !!!!
Music, footballer, actors have all stepped up to the plate. Then you have thieves destroying the country…
History will know Whose who…
nowadays you can’t even drive a beutiful car without people pathetically looking at you in Zambia! Am self made nigars! I left the country and made money away from your tax payers money. Not everyone is a thief but most of them are…
Well done Zambia football!!!!
Let’s roll …
I hate this PF cadre BR Mumba with a passion.
Great news but it should have been on the copper belt. Ever since our sport shifted focus to Lusaka in the 90s we stopped progressing. Talent is in the outlying areas not in Lusaka.
FOOTBALL IS NATURAL TALENT FOR ZAMBIA…………
BRAVO KAMANGA AND THE GROUP
Where does it say FAZ in the article …the pick your name from your box and you celebrate like foools. Why dont you pull the strings and have all the cards…when are we going to wake up you fooools!!
THIS NOT NEWS , WE ARE THIRD CHOICE WHO ARE FIRST AND SECOND? SUPER EAGLES IS FIRST I DONT KNOW SECOND, SO third is nothing to talk about
You are loyal to a fault… meaning you can reach yourself and break yourself whenever you want…
Try seeking help from our competent psychiatry doctors at Chainama. I have no doubt whatsoever they will solve your mental disorder!!!
Ehmmmm actually ( do research first)
Egypt first Nigeria second ( last year) now Zambia first in the southern/eastern Africa. One question: if is not a news why you comment?
Becarefull with these ……could be a scam.
If they ask for payment it is a con.
Parents will pay anything in the hope of making a footballer of their son . ….and are easily duped in the process…
You can link yourself to barça? Do you know how barcelona work? Are you able to engage them? Are you able to setup an academy with the masia coaches for free? If yes please call me so I will bring my kids.
Or you are a usual keyboard lion?
With love from mother Zambia and football.
HH AND HIS UPND CLONES WILL OPPOSE THIS…………….YES
It is only a fun day to rip you pf rats off of the money you are stealing naimwe….it could even be a bussiness by HH….
Well done barca u will attract more fans from Zambia
During the previous session they were charging $200. Now most of the great footballers emerge from academies that are a social welfare arrangement were children pay nothing or minimal fees. This barca academy is like for children of the rich. If its talent they want it should be affordable even by children from misisi, mandevu, kalingalinga so that both children from poor families and well to do families compete on talent basis and not whose parents can afford to pay for them.
That is right…….It is a scam….a money making venture not a talent seeking endeavour.
Someone clever probably lied about the connection to the real Barcelona FC.
300 by $200 Is $60,000…..not a bad con for a few days.
The trick here to know that this is simply a money making venture is the inclusion of girls…..now not saying girls can play but I don’t see any girls playing with Lionel messy but they certainly are welcome to come up with the $200.00
Sorry to call this a con….or to demine this ,what I mean is the true football fans are conning themselves into thinking this is a FC Barca talent search…..
But again I will call this a con because of the organisers of this fun day getting people’s hopes high by linking the Barcelona FC name to this money making venture….
Zambian we are lack FCB muchende
How can i be connected i would love my brother to show case his talent
I m very happy that barcelona fc nw in zambia …..